The penultimate hand of the 2021 PokerStars World Championship of Online Poker $5,200 buy-in no-limit hold’em main event featured a classic preflop race situation with the title and nearly half of a million-dollar difference between the first and second-place payouts. Canadian poker pro and World Series of Poker bracelet winner Pascal ‘Pass 72’ Lefrancois had the chip lead, but by less than one big blind. His AJ was behind the 1010 of Russian player ‘CrazyLissy’. Lefrancois flopped top pair and a straight draw, but ‘CrazyLissy’ hit bottom set to retain their lead. Lefrancois failed to improve any further and was eliminated in second place, earning $1,069,210 as the runner-up finisher while ‘CrazyLissy’ locked up the title and the $1,499,942 top prize. This was the second time that ‘CrazyLissy’ emerged victorious in a WCOOP event, with their previous title coming in a $2,100 buy-in ho-limit hold’em event during the 2019 running of this storied online tournament s